Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Blair P. Houghton wrote:
> > I'm saying that the change from Oracle 9 to Oracle 10 is like changing
> > from ffs to fat32.
>
> well, I'm quite sure that the people I know who's spending a lot of
> their time moving stuff from Oracle N to Oracle N+1 (and sometimes
> getting stuck, due to incompatibilities between SQL and SQL and a lack
> of infinite resources) would say you're completely and utterly nuts.

Maybe they'd just be hyperbolic from the frustration.  Filesystems
/are/ databases, and incompatibilities /are/ incompatibilities.  And
without ANSI, the SQL problem could be like incompatibilities in C.
Not unheard-of.  Not at all.

--Blair

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